Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the 'Tales of My Landlord' for the QUARTERLY REVIEW, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author's information. Afterwards they were published in the Preface to the CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. They are now inserted in their proper place.
The mutual protection afforded by Waverley and Talbot to each other, upon which the whole plot depends, is founded upon one of those anecdotes which soften the features even of civil war; and as it is equally honourable to the memory of both parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John Cope's army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by the Camerons and the Stewarts of Appine. The late Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle was one of the foremost in the charge, and observing an officer of the King's forces, who, scorning to join the flight of all around, remained with his sword in his hand, as if determined to the very last to defend the post assigned to him, the Highland gentleman commanded him to surrender, and received for reply a thrust, which he caught in his target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle's mill) was uplifted to dash his brains out, when Mr. Stewart with difficulty prevailed on him to yield. He took charge of his enemy's property, protected his person, and finally obtained him liberty on his parole. The officer proved to be Colonel Whitefoord, an Ayrshire gentleman of high character and influence, and warmly attached to the House of Hanover; yet such was the confidence existing between these two honourable men, though of different political principles, that while the civil war was raging, and straggling officers from the Highland army were executed without mercy, Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit, as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits, on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel Whitefoord's Whig friends, as pleasantly and as good-humouredly as if all had been at peace around him.
Walter Scott
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Under which King, Bezonian? speak, or die! Henry IV, Part II.
Contents
INTRODUCTION—(1829)
WAVERLEY or 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
WAVERLEY-HONOUR—-A RETROSPECT
CHAPTER III
EDUCATION
CHAPTER IV
CASTLE-BUILDING
CHAPTER V
CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
CHAPTER VI
THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY
CHAPTER VII
A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER VIII
A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE
CHAPTER IX
MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS
CHAPTER X
ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER
CHAPTER XI
THE BANQUET
CHAPTER XII
REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XIII
A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST
CHAPTER XIV
A DISCOVERY—WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS
CHAPTER XVII
THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER
CHAPTER XVIII
WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY
CHAPTER XIX
THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION
CHAPTER XX
A HIGHLAND FEAST
CHAPTER XXI
THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER
CHAPTER XXII
HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY
CHAPTER XXIII
WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH
CHAPTER XXIV
A STAG-HUNT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XXV
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
CHAPTER XXVI
AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT
CHAPTER XXVII
UPON THE SAME SUBJECT
CHAPTER XXVIII
A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN
CHAPTER XXIX
WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR
CHAPTER XXX
SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE
CHAPTER XXXI
AN EXAMINATION
CHAPTER XXXII
A CONFERENCE, AND THE CONSEQUENCE
CHAPTER XXXIII
A CONFIDANT
CHAPTER XXXIV
THINGS MEND A LITTLE
CHAPTER XXXV
A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE
CHAPTER XXXVI
AN INCIDENT
CHAPTER XXXVII
WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS
CHAPTER XXXVIII
A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED
CHAPTER XL
AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XLI
THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP
CHAPTER XLII
A SOLDIER'S DINNER
CHAPTER XLIII
THE BALL
CHAPTER XLIV
THE MARCH
CHAPTER XLV
AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS
CHAPTER XLVI
THE EVE OF BATTLE
CHAPTER XLVII
THE CONFLICT
CHAPTER XLVIII
AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT
CHAPTER XLIX
THE ENGLISH PRISONER
CHAPTER L
RATHER UNIMPORTANT
CHAPTER LI
INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS
CHAPTER LII
INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE
CHAPTER LIII
FERGUS A SUITOR
CHAPTER LIV
'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER'
CHAPTER LV
A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW
CHAPTER LVI
EXERTION
CHAPTER LVII
THE MARCH
CHAPTER LVIII
THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP
CHAPTER LIX
A SKIRMISH
CHAPTER LX
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
CHAPTER LXI
A JOURNEY TO LONDON
CHAPTER LXII
WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT?
CHAPTER LXIII
DESOLATION
CHAPTER LXIV
COMPARING OF NOTES
CHAPTER LXV
MORE EXPLANATION
CHAPTER LXVI
CHAPTER LXVII
CHAPTER LXVIII:
CHAPTER LXIX
CHAPTER LXX
DOLCE DOMUM
CHAPTER LXXI
CHAPTER LXXII
A POSTSCRIPT, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE
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GLOSSARY